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Summary: I'd like to learn
Comment: I study architecture in Havana, Cuba. I'd like to learn more about this matter specially 3d Architectural Working Drawings but, I can not have possibilities to buy any of yor books. Can you help me out? thanks, Roany.
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Summary: Good book for beginners
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This book provide a good foundation for a beginning Sketchup user. The combination of video and print addresses the needs of different types of learning. Professional narration would help the videos. This is not the book for 3D organic modeling or advanced architecture users.
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Summary: Excellent - Highly Recommended!!
Comment: Thank you for producing such a great product - 3D Construction Modeling is probably the best example I've ever seen that simplifies a seemingly complex process into very easy to understand exercises. It identifies the learning objectives for each task, the resources and time required, and cleverly illustrates all the steps a reader will perform. The book clearly distinguishes which information is knowledge only, and which requires performance by the reader. This book is unquestionably one of the best training books I've ever had the privilege of owning. Very well done. Highly recommended. The best customer service I've experienced too. Personal emails from the publishers - how refreshing is that?
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Summary: Step-by-Step success learning SketchUp!!
Comment: Dr. Fukai:
Thank you for writing your 3-D Construction Modeling textbook. I am new to SketchUp 4.0 and building design. I am attempting to design and build my own metal sculpture studio from scratch. I discovered SketchUp quite by accident. While reading the Winter issue of Tools & Shops by Fine Woodworking Magazine, I came across an article written by John Yurko. In the article Mr. Yurko described his experience using SketchUp to construct woodshop machinery and design the overall look and flow of his shop.
Before I read this article, I was tempted to purchase another brand of off-the-shelf architectural software. Thank goodness I did not.
Last month my wife ordered a copy of SketchUP from @Last Software to use in her first-grade classroom. I began to experiment around with the software myself, but was I rather disappointed in the training tutorials offered by the company. Their video tutorials were useful yet were designed to be more general in nature. I prefer using a "project" textbook written in step-by-step fashion as you have done. I am a metalsmith, and for several years I have dreamed of building a workshop behind our home. My goal has been to use SketchUp to visualize both framing construction and overall visual appearance of the shop before construction. Being able to work out the framing details and obtain an overall "look & feel" of the shop in advance will help me to avoid costly errors once the real construction begins.
It is impossible to express how excited I am to have found your book! It is exactly the textbook I was hoping to find and use. To my surprise I also discovered the book contained a CD-ROM containing 50 interactive video "Shorties" that take the user step-by-step though the entire building sequence. The book's casual, yet highly detailed and sequential approach is what makes it so valuable.
Dr. Fukai, thank you again for creating such a fresh and dynamic approach to learning the SketchUp program.
Sincerely yours,
Jim Teachey
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
www.village-pewter.com/newsite
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Summary: Thank you Mr. Fukai!
Comment: This is my first 3D program to learn, and i'm glad i found this book. Good thing about this book is that i don't have to read the book. ^^ Just play the movies and follow his steps.
Has anybody seen author's cell phone number listed on the book? It shows how much he cares about the readers.
I just started step 1 second time to follow exactly what he is teaching us in the book. Without this book i would have never guessed how to apply SketcuUp in the real world.
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